Power Tools for QlikView

[StefanBackstrand]

Dear Community members!

On Monday, November 7th, the Power Tools for QlikView is released to the general public!

This is the main thread to discuss the Power Tools, share ideas and report bugs. It will work as an interim solution until we get the Power Tools section up and running.

We will update this thread with all necessary information as soon as the package is released, so stay tuned!

Best regards,

The Power (Tools) team

[StefanBackstrand]

Today, the Power Tools for QlikView is released to the general public!

What are the Power Tools for QlikView?

• The Power Tools for QlikView is a package of small utilities designed to help use, troubleshoot, or extend QlikView functionality
• Documentation of the tools are confined in the tools themselves or in readme’s supplied with them
• For bug reports, suggestions and collaboration; comment in this thread! (http://community.qlik.com/thread/38461). More tools will come – and we are looking for input – help collaborate in the QlikCommunity thread!
• Have a look in the Readme file provided here: Power Tools1.0 Readme
• Power Tools for QlikView are not supported, and QlikTech gives no warranties on the usage of the tools. QlikView Support will not answer support issues for the Power Tools.
• Power Tools version is currently 1.0. The different tools have their own version numbers. Tools version list:
  • QlikView Server Agent – 1.1
  • QMS API Client – 1.0
  • QvsDetector – 0.9
  • Qv User Manager – 1.0
  • Reload Schedule Migration – 1.0.4321
  • Server Object Handler – 1.0
  • Server Object Handler Batch – 1.0
  • Shared File Viewer – 0.7
  • XMLDbViewer – 1.0.4321

You can download the Power Tools from here: Power Tools 1.0

[danielrozental]

Excellent, sounds really interesting.

Thanks Stefan!

[#4]

interesting.

are there any plans to publish the source code, so one can enhance the tools? I mean I can look at the code with Reflector.NET/ILSpy anyway, so why hiding?

[StefanBackstrand]

Daniel: And thank you!

rva: The qv-user-manager tool is open source already. Check the readme for that one for details. 🙂

We have not decided on source access for the rest of the tools yet, but it will probably come up again. Thank you for your input!

[dvasseur]

Very interesting !

Source code would indeed be great!

[bnichol]

The meta and shared files were always impossible for me to understand, so the SharedFileViewer will be very useful.

I was dissappointed that it didn't have the ability to extract a high level object list, but the ServerObjectHandler will help there.

Lastly, the XMLDBViewer helped me simplify the creation of a task list spreadsheet.

Thanks for the tools,

B

[StefanBackstrand]

bnichol: Yes, insight into the .meta files (as well as the .shared) can be very useful sometimes.

This "high-level" list - what would it consist of? A list of object IDs and information on the same level only?

[#9]

Hi Stefan,

                  Good to hear like solutions on BI Qlikview Tool.

Regards,

Ravi.

[bnichol]

The high level list I was thinking of would include the object title or name.  Something more than ID.  'CH01' or 'BM03' are a little ambiguous.

Another suggestion: Sort the 'Select Document' pop-up box by 'Path\Document Name' on the 'Server Object Handler' tool.  I have 100+ documents and while it groups by path, the sorting on path is wrong (i.e Test\... before Quality\...).  Also, within the path grouping sort by Document name.

Thanks again for the tools,

B